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can a funeral home hold the death certificates and not give them to you until the bill is paid off in the state of georgia

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6dogs4us

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No, funeral homes are not the ones that are responsible for originating death certificates. You can get copies at Dept. of Vital Statistics. Funeral homes get them as a service to the family of the deceased.

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edoty52

the funeral home has the death certificates and won't let us have them until the bill is paid in full. we have it set up on payments.

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6dogs4us

Try contacting Vital Statistics to see if they can provide you with copies (for a fee of course). You may need them for getting insurance money or other selling automobiles etc. At the price most funeral homes charge, it'll take you quite a while to pay it off and you may need the certificates before them. I believe I received 3 copies and I had to use 2 to settle up issues, I didn't get them back either.

Good luck with this.

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